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As usual, I suspect the BOJ behind today's up move in the yen and euro. I suspect with comments coming out of the GWB administration saying recovery is ahead, they will soon loose their patience concerning the manipulation of the US$.
Could be some fireworks coming, remember the 1987 crash had much to do with $ problems.

Investors remained on alert for yen-selling intervention by Japanese monetary authorities, although upward pressure on the yen was alleviated by an unexpected downward revision in Japan's growth data for October-December.

Japan said the economy grew 1.6 percent in the October-December period from the previous quarter, revising down its initial reading of 1.7 percent.

The Bank of Japan was suspected of intervening on Tuesday after the dollar tumbled toward 110 yen. Money market anal cysts in Tokyo estimated Japan probably intervened to the tune of 500 billion yen ($4.50 billion). There was no confirmation from the authorities. http://www.forbes.co...rtr1293338.html

By Andrew Caffrey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 10 - State Street Corp. is coming under increasing scrutiny from federal regulators in the nationwide probe of improper trading in mutual funds.

The Boston-based company disclosed yesterday that it had received a new round of subpoenas Friday from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking "additional information" related to market timing and late trading in funds. It was unclear whether the company or its clients were the subject of the latest inquiry.

State Street, which manages $1 trillion in investments and provides administrative services to many mutual fund groups, said it has "engaged in exchanges of requests and information" with the SEC since September and has responded to "broad requests" for information from the US Department of Labor and other agencies.http://www.miami.com...nal/8151723.htm

""Pretty bubbleheads preen daily on our financial networks, playing the shill to Wall Street and Washington in order to lure unsuspecting Americans into buying insanely overvalued stocks. The great market exchanges, once prudent arenas of investment where the engine of capitalism traded value for value, have become sham casinos staggering under decades of massive Fed created debt and lurching into oblivion on the greater fool theory. Yet our high level bureaucrats, led by Alan Greenspan, exhort all Americans to consume still more of their seed corn and seek still more fools." N. Hultberg

A key witness in a congressional investigation of Qwest Communications may be called to testify as soon as today in the criminal trial of four of the Denver telecom company's former executives.

Federal prosecutors will summon Robin Szeliga, who was the Denver phone company's chief financial officer from April 2001 to July 2002, to testify about her observations of a 2001 deal between Qwest and the Arizona School Facilities Board.

Grant P. Graham, Thomas W. Hall, Bryan K. Treadway and John M. Walker are being tried on charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with that deal.